Local catering company City Provisions is entering the already crowded "supper club" pool currently shared by Sunday Dinner Club, Bonsoiree, Efrain Cuevas' Clandestino, Bill "The Fish Guy" Dugan's Wellfleet and Jorgina Pereira's Sinhá. City Provisions is kicking their supper club series off in style July 26 with a bus trip to, tour of and dinner at Faith's Farm, a free-range livestock farm in Bonfield, Illinois. On the way, Jason Ebel of Two Brothers Brewing Company......

The Tribune reports today about a battle starting to heat up between residents of Jo Daviess County in Northwest Illinois and a California dairy farmer who just received approval from the state Department of Agriculture to build a "megadairy." A. J. Bos, who seems to specialize in these ginormous dairy farms, received approval to build a farm housing 4,400 head of milking cattle on 1,450 acres of land in Nora, Illinois. If you think that's......